"effective 01/06, only bands drawing at least 200 people per show will be allowed to play at pizza luce. trampled by turtles every weekend anyone?" (source // pdd thread)

this doesn't sit well with me at all. one of the things i liked very much about the shows at luce was that they WEREN'T absolutely packed. i saw heiruspecs there once with about fifteen other people, and it was one of my very favorite shows ever.

i could be bitter sheerly for my own nostalgic or selfish reasons... the glory days of the hardcore jollies... the aforementioned heiruspecs show... crew jones, the black-eyed snakes, etc. all played there. and it's one of the only venues left in duluth that i can see all these bands play because I'M NOT 21 YET (two months & twenty days, if anyone is counting).

this doesn't really give smaller bands a chance to grow. luce seemed to be a good starting point to expose your music to new people and slowly gain a fan base. now we're left with the tap room and (god forbid) grandma's sports garden (both of which underagers like myself are shut out of), and then some smaller venues that louder bands won't really go over well in.

i remember feeling despair like this when the MAC closed shortly after i saw haley bonar there (one of only two shows i got to see there). it sucks that i came to duluth too late and missed out on what was once a vivacious music scene.

granted, i don't know what's going on behind the scenes at luce to prompt a seemingly selfish decision, but i don't see this as a good thing. at all.

what do you think?



as a side note, i ran across a thread where many many people called eric clapton "shitty" and "cheesy" and "lame" and "an overrated pop star" and "irrelevant." (the kicker is that "the most vile, unforgivable, trash in popular music history was spewed by this heinous waste of carbon.") i had no idea that people who don't like eric clapton even existed, and i say that in all seriousness. he's probably my favorite musician of all time, but no matter your take on him, you have to respect the flow. and these haters don't. my mind is blown and not in that good way.


ps: how much does this guy look like andy frye? anyone?